soles
靴底
解説 Definition
soles は sole(靴底)の複数形で、靴底という意味です。靴の地面に接する部分を指し、人の足の裏や魚の種類を表す sole とは文脈で区別します。
The bottom parts of two or more shoes or boots that touch the ground when someone walks. The word can also refer to the undersides of the feet, but here it specifically denotes parts of footwear.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
sole「靴底」の規則的な複数形で、語末の e はそのままに -s を付け、/soʊlz/ と発音する。the soles of my shoes や thick rubber soles が典型表現。地面に直接触れる左右の靴の底を思い浮かべれば、「唯一の」を表す形容詞 sole や魚の sole と文脈で区別できる。
Soles is the regular plural of sole in the sense of the bottom of a shoe. Add -s without changing the final e, and pronounce the ending /z/: /soʊlz/. Picture turning over a pair of boots and seeing two thick rubber soles, the surfaces that meet the ground. Common patterns include the soles of my shoes, leather soles, and wet soles. Context separates this meaning from sole as an adjective meaning “only” and from the flatfish called a sole: shoes, boots, rubber, wear, and contact with the ground point to footwear.
例文
The soles of my shoes are wet.
私の靴底はぬれています。
These boots have thick rubber soles.
このブーツには厚いゴムの靴底が付いています。
The worker checked the soles before entering the clean room.
作業員はクリーンルームに入る前に靴底を確認しました。
soles の類義語・関連語
soles の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 solea(サンダル、足の裏)が古フランス語 sole を経て英語に入った。語根 solum(地面・底)と関連し、「地面に接する部分」が原義。関連語: insole(中敷き)、soil(土壌、同根の説あり)。足裏・靴底・魚のシタビラメ(平たく底に張り付く)まで「底面」のイメージで統一される。
Sole came through Old French sole from Latin solea, meaning a sandal or the bottom of a shoe. Solea is associated with solum, “ground” or “bottom,” reflecting the part that meets the earth. Soles is simply the regular English plural, formed by adding -s. The same noun later came to denote the underside of the human foot, while the fish name developed separately through comparison with a flat sandal.
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